#law-enforcement

#law-enforcement

Eric Immesberger posed as a hit man in undercover operations to gather evidence against people attempting to hire one. He is a former agent for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives who spent 21 years investigating violent crime, including firearms trafficking, organized criminal crews, and murder-for-hire plots. Movies and TV often portray murder for hire as a clean, professional transaction.

Mr Jones said offenders are collaborating and co-ordinating their activities on the dark web and using the open web as a discovery platform to identify and abuse vulnerable children. (Getty Images) We were dealing with in the region of 500-800 arrests a few years ago, and we are now dealing with 1,000 arrests and 1,200 (child) safeguards every month. To maintain that means a 24/7 effort by the NCA and colleagues in policing, and that gives you a feel for how the threat has grown.

A 47-year-old man arrested by police in Poland for allegedly being involved in cybercriminal activities has been linked to the Phobos ransomware operation. According to Poland's Central Cybercrime Bureau, officers found hacking tools, credentials, payment card numbers, and server IP addresses on the unnamed suspect's devices during a search. They also discovered that the suspect had exchanged messages with the Phobos ransomware group.

A State Police trooper was seriously injured Saturday after a car crashed into his police SUV on a Salisbury highway, State Police said. The trooper had stopped on I-95 South to remove a ladder from the roadway Saturday afternoon, the agency said in a press release. After he got back into his cruiser, another vehicle suddenly struck the trooper's car.

A 30-second Super Bowl ad was supposed to celebrate community. Instead, it reignited a national debate about who's really watching whom. Ring's feel-good commercial, which aired during Super Bowl LX on Feb. 8, might have tugged at heartstrings with a lost dog storyline. However, for many viewers, it struck a far more unsettling chord: the growing web of surveillance cameras stretching across the United States.

A little known security feature on iPhones is in the spotlight after it stymied efforts by U.S. federal authorities to search devices seized from a reporter.Apple's Lockdown Mode recently prevented FBI agents from getting into Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson's iPhone.Agents seized the phone, as well as two MacBooks and other electronic devices, when they searched Natanson's home last month as part of an investigation into a Pentagon contractor accused of illegally handling classified information.

FBI Director Kash Patel said yesterday that investigators recovered footage from Savannah Guthrie's mother's doorbell camera using "residual data located in backend systems." This claim has many home security camera users asking an uncomfortable question: Is your data really gone when you hit delete? When Nancy Guthrie went missing, officials said she had a doorbell camera, but that it had been forcibly removed, and she did not have a subscription.

A 29-year-old Hayward man was charged with six felonies and a misdemeanor after police in Union City identified him as a local drug dealer with a diverse menu for sale, court records show. The unidentified man was charged on Jan. 22 with selling cocaine, methamphetamine, ketamine, psilocybin mushrooms and MDMA, court records show. He also faces a misdemeanor count for allegedly selling marijuana.

The arrest followed a months-long investigation into several illegal gambling operations in Sarasota County resulting in a search warrant for the "41 Social Club," an announcement from the sheriff's office alleges. During the warrant, a total of 66 slot machines, along with U.S. currency, were seized from the business. It has also been said that additional evidence located included a cease and desist letter from SCSO that was provided to the business in April 2025.

Officers are trained to not stand in front of or reach into moving vehicles, to never pull their firearms unless it is absolutely necessary, and to use force only in proportion to a corresponding threat. They are trained to clearly identify themselves, de-escalate tensions, respect the sanctity of life and quickly render aid to anyone they wound.

Sheehan criticized the federal response to the shooting, citing comments made by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, who initially described Good's actions in the moments leading up to her death as domestic terrorism. Noem also accused Good of attempting to weaponize her vehicle against agents on the scene. "[Noem] came out in the cowboy hat and said it was domestic terrorism, trying to run over an officer, and then the footage came out and didn't speak to that at all," Sheehan said.

California wildlife officials announced they have dismantled a large underground wildlife trafficking operation in Fresno and Madera counties, after federal agents intercepted a falsely labeled international shipment, Gov. Gavin Newsom's office said Friday. The investigation began after the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service intercepted a shipment bound for Fresno. It was from Thailand and falsely labeled, containing four elephant trunks.

Again, when you take into account all of the factors that none of us know because we weren't there we don't know what precipitated that, we don't know what happened before. And unfortunately they interfered with an ongoing law enforcement investigation and that is something you just don't do. Normal law-abiding citizens don't do that. There's nothing wrong with exercising their Amendment rights to record, but when you start interfering, that's tough.

Starbucks said on Tuesday that it had conducted an investigation of the incident and had fired the employee who had handed over the coffee cup at the drive-thru window, even though the investigation found that the drawing was not intentionally meant to be offensive. Starbucks spokesperson Jaci Anderson said the drawing of a popular meme, John Pork, was created in the morning, hours before the deputy visited the coffee shop.

A former Navy SEAL with neo-Nazi beliefs faces up to 10 years in prison after he was convicted of transporting fireworks across state lines with the intent to injure law enforcement at a "No Kings" protest in San Diego, authorities said. FBI agents found messages on Gregory Vandenberg's phone indicating he was upset with President Trump because he believed the U.S. government is controlled by Israel and the Jewish people, according to the Department of Justice.